Ice buildup on powerlines and electric towers brought the northern US and southern Canada to a standstill during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, leaving many in the cold and dark for days and even weeks.

The Guam rail, also known as the ko’ko’, has all the architectural grace of a wood-paneled Buick station wagon. 

Narwhals are changing their migration patterns in response to pressure from changing Arctic climates, a new UBC report has found.

Zoologists from Trinity, working with a research team in Indonesia, have found several new species of colourful, tropical sunbirds.

The journeys of night-migrating birds are already fraught with danger.

The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving researchers from the University of Oxford, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - that is creating an oasis of life 500 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean. 

As the sun sets, bumblebees revisit "profitable" flowers they encountered during the day, new research suggests.

If you were to travel from Arctic Canada and head south down the Rocky Mountains into the US towards Mexico, the further south you go, the more black wolves there are.

This week, an international group of 10 scientists is calling for protective limits on fishing in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, reporting in the journal Science that current levels of fishing, combined with climate change, are taking a concerning toll on a diverse ecosystem of global importance.

A new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Colorado State University, and the National Park Service indicates previously unknown high altitude contests between two of America’s most sensational mammals – mountain goats and bighorn sheep – over access to minerals previously unavailable due to the past presence of glaciers which, now, are vanishing due to global warming.